Thousands returned to the streets of Tirana for the 2nd day of protests after the 25-year-old Klodian Rasha was murdered by police for buying cigarettes past curfew. Several fires were set and many barricades were burnt, with far more violent clashes with police occurring. Tear gas was deployed, as well as police brutality including the use of rubber bullets and tear gas.
Thousands of students gathered in Thessaloniki and marched against a new law which would restore police to university campuses across Greece for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship. Clashes ensued after police deployed tear gas on protesters, with Molotov cocktails flying through the air and firebombs used against law enforcement. After finishing the march in spite of chemical weapons being used on protesters, the students returned for an afternoon march against state repression.
Hundreds of protesters in Málaga took to the streets to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned and facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy, the Bourbon royal family.
Over 700 protesters in Chania took to the streets in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding that the Greek government immediately satisfy the communist revolutionary prisoner’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters in Belo Horizonte took to the streets in opposition to the policies of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, demanding expanded access to vaccines and the end of ethnic cleansing and killings in the Amazon rainforest against the indigenous population.
